This life is crazy-beautiful.
This morning I was struggling to show up in my business (If you sometimes feel heavy when you know you have time to get things done... this is for you)
I woke up exhausted with a nagging head-ache and this very heavy feeling. I knew I had the whole morning to work on my marketing and admin tasks that I hadn't had a chance to do all week.
And here's how I moved out of it and THE CRAZIEST thing happened.
First, I messaged my coach and told her how I was feeling. It's the MOST valuable thing I have ever done, is paid for 1:1 support.
While I was waiting for her to respond, I decided to watch a training from another one of my coaches. I always feel excited and motivated after hearing what she has to say and I chose to actively change my emotional state (aka change my emotions to feel better)
Then my coach responded and we worked through what was going on..
- What was the thoughts that I was thinking that was creating the heaviness?
-- Thoughts my brain was offering me was: "It's not working" "It's too late"
- How did it feel in my body?
-- In my body, it felt like there was this distance between me and my goal and sadness. The sadness was trying to keep me safe from dissapointment when my goal "doesn't happen" (This is what our brains do to keep us safe... we experience the emotions of failing before we even get to our goal)
And then she helped me access emotions that felt lighter and fun through a tool called Meta Pattern (I also use this in my coaching)
From this space, she asked me: "What would I want to do in this time while feeling lighter? What would be fun?"
I said I wanted to go live on IG because I'd had so many epiphanies this week, I want to share it with my people.
But again... my brain was saying... I'm going to get interrupted by my daughter and it's noisey (all the excuses 🙄 🧠)
I decided to embrace whatever interruptions might happen and go live anyway with the "lighter and fun" feeling in my body.
It went well, I felt good and I spoke about numbers vs emotions (You can watch it here if you want)
Then... the craziest thing happened.
Not even 30mins later, my phone rang 📞
An old acquaintance that I haven't heard from in about 10 years phoned me
And invited me to speak at a women's event (We're still negotiating)
CRAZY 🤯
From not wanting to show up... Not believing that any of this is working
To a beautiful opportunity landing in my lap because I shifted my emotional state and showed up anyway
I help women do this work. I DO THIS work. It works.
Showing up and taking action is what helps us get opportunities... but we need to feel emotionally capable TO show up in the first place.
What if you aren't the problem, you just 'feel' like the problem and then struggle to move forward?
Reply to this email if you want to learn more about this process. I'm on a mission to help hundreds of women regulate their emotions so they can build a fulfilling business and life.
With so much love
Lauren xx
